[Collective Work] - From Ariane to Zoé. A romantic and senti - Lot 176

[Collective Work] - From Ariane to Zoé. A romantic and sentimental alphabet illustrated with verses, prose, and lithographs by twenty-six writers and as many artists. Paris, Librairie de France, 1930. Quarto, bound in green half-maroquin with corner pieces, accented with a gold fillet; decorated raised spine; gilt title and head; covers and spine preserved—traces of water damage on the covers—[4 ff;], 192 pp. (the last unnumbered), [4 ff., table of contents, blank page, list of illustrations, complete]. Texts by: H. de Regnier, J. Giraudoux, the Countess of Noailles, Colette, F. Mauriac, V. Larbaud, A. Maurois, P. Valéy, P. Morand, P. Mac Orlan, Tr. Dérème....illustrated with lithographs by Dunoyer de Segonzac, R. Dufy, B. Mahn, M. Laurencin, E. Legrand, Daragnès, M. Lydis, Chas Laborde... A print run of 220 numbered copies; this one is an H-C copy intended for writers and artists. H-C copy on Van Gelder Holland paper intended for Jean Giraudoux, with an E.A.S. by J.-L. Vaudoyer. Twenty-three of the lithographs are signed in pencil.